Sunday, March 16, 2014

A visit with vintage

I made a quick breeze through a local vintage marketplace yesterday; this was necessary since my husband and son were along. If you asked them, they would not have described it as a quick breeze through but, trust me, it was! I took some photos so you could come along with me.

Seriously -- after all these years of blogging, that's how I feel when I'm in a store and see a pretty sight: that I should photograph it and bring you all along.

There was lots of this pretty blue.

I love these buttons on Bingo cards.

Here's a different mannequin/dress form than I am used to seeing!

A display of license plates on a shelf that I found rather artistic.

How cute is this framed print? It's one I'd never seen before but was $65 so it stayed behind.

This antique store has an indoor flea market vibe.

I really get a kick out of these displays of collections!

I'll take a pink one!

This lavender chest was EYE-CATCHING!

As was this piggy bank -- it's the size of a cookie jar!

(This buffalo is how you can tell we're in Colorado.)

Lots of scales and industrial-looking stuff, which I love.

This cherub lamp made me laugh -- doesn't the little guy look distraught to be on that gaudy gold lamp?

Pretty pink paisley.

There was plenty of Easter going on in the shop.

Some of the needlepoint I saw:

this pair of needlepoints with a beach cottage scene; I don't think I've ever seen any just like them...

and this wonderful tapestry, still on its frame and unfinished. What a lot of work!

Thanks for the antique shop trip. My hubby and I are going to one of my favorite malls on Friday. Luckily, he likes to look in all the locked display cases that hold all the really small stuff - it buys extra time for me. :>)

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